• I. SICK• Sick of Nature• "Bigger Than Shakespeare," Or How I Weathered the Perfect Storm• Benediction: On Being Boswell's Boswell• A Letter to a Neighbor• Ultimate Glory: A Frisbee Memoir• Marking My Territory• Polygamist of Place• II. GETTING PERSONAL• The Apprentice• To the Fatherland• On Creating Nonfiction• Being Theo• III. BACK TO NATURE• Dungo in the Jungle• Soliloquy in Spartina• The Punctured Pastoral• IV. HOWLING WITH THE TRICKSTER: A WILD MEMOIR• Trickster in the City• Walled-In• Howl